Picture-hanging device.



No. 769,695. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. W. P. GURR.

PICTURE HANGING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 00115, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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PATENT OEEIcE.

W'ILLIAM P. GURR, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROSEMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OFMINNESOTA.

PICTURE-HANGING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 769,695, at September13, 1904.

Application filed October 15, 1903. Serial No. 177,128. \No modelJ Toall whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LIVILLIAM P. GURR,8. citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis,in the county of Hennepin and State ofHinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPicture-Hanging Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My present invention has for its object to provide an improvedpicture-hanging device by means of which the frame of a picture may bequickly adjusted into dili'erent vertical positions and into differentangular positions with respect to the wall.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafterdescribed and defined in the claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in elevation looking at the back of a framed picturewhich is suspended by a pair of my improved hanging attachments. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1, a portion of a wallfrom which the picture is suspended being indicated in section. Fig. 3is a detail View, on an enlarged scale, showing one of the hangingattachments looking at the rear face of the same and some parts beingbroken away. Fig. 4 is an edge elevation of the said attachment, andFig. 5 is a section on the line of Fig. 3.

The numeral 1 indicates the wall, and the numeral 2 the picture-frame.The picture in the illustration given is suspended from a hook 3 on thewall I by means of a wire 4 and a pair of my improved hangingattachments.

The hanging attachments are preferably made in rights and lefts and areapplied one to each side of the picture-frame. Each hanging attachrnentinvolves as follows: A metallic strap 5 is hinged at 6 to a foot-plate7, which is adapted to be secured by screws to the side of thepicture-frame. At its free end the strap 5 is provided with a stud 8, onwhich is pivotally mounted a narrow but deep windlass or sheave 9,having disk-like sides, the flange which lies next to the strap 5 beingformed with peripheral ratchet-teeth 10, which form the same into aratchet-wheel. A retaining-pawl 11, preferably in the form of a flatspring secured at one end to the strap 5, as shown at 12, engages withthe ratchet-teeth 10 at its free end, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4..The outer flange of the Windlass or sheave 9 is provided with aperforation 13, through which one end of the cord 4 is adapted to bepassed outward and secured against reverse movements by having its outerend knotted. The outer flange of the said Windlass 9 will convenientlyserve as a wheel to be engaged by the finger and thumb to wind thepicturesuspending cord or wire onto the said windlass. Hence it willusually be desirable to knurl or rough the periphery of the said outerflange.

Mounted to slide on the strap 5 is a presserfoot or bracket 14, theprojecting portion of which is adapted to engage with the side of thepicture-frame and hold the said frame at an angle to the wall dependingon the position of the said foot or bracket on the said strap 5. As isevident, the angle of the frame to the wall will be increased by forcingthe said foot downward on the strap 5, and, conversely, will bedecreased by forcing the said presser-foot upward. This is evident by aninspection of Fig. 2.

As already stated, the two hanger devices above described are made inrights and lefts and are applied one to each side of the back of thepicture-frame. The ends of the cord or wire 4 are of course attached oneto each Windlass or sheave 9, and as the said sheaves are adapted to beturned in reverse directionsthe ends of the said cord or wire must bereversely wound on the said sheaves. This is further desirable, as itenables the picture to be hung central with respect to thesupporting-hook.

' IV hen it is desired to lower the picture, it is 'tures from one houseto another where the ceilings vary in height it is necessary to changethe lengths of the picture-supporting wires or cords. Furthermore, it isfrequently desirable to change the height of a picture even where it isnot otherwise moved.

With a device described as above pictures may be readjusted very quicklyand without cutting or patching the suspending-wires. The manner inwhich the picture may be set at any desired angle to the wall hasalready been described. It will of course be under- I stood that thedevice described is capable of many modifications within the scope of myinvention as herein set forth and claimed. In fact, I desire to claim,broadly, any and all means for adjusting the windlasses to and from thepicture-frame, so as to vary the angle at which the frame will hang uponthe wall.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. The combination with a picture-frame and a suspending wire or cord,of a pair of windlasses, supports for said windlasses secured to thesides of the picture-frame, means for adjusting said windlass-supportsat diiferent angles with respect to said picture-frame,

- the said suspending wire or cord being attached at its end to saidwindlasses, substantially as described.

I A picture-hanging device comprising a windlass, a windlass-support,adapted to be applied to and adjusted with respect to a picture-frame,and means for adjusting said windlass-support to and from thepictureframe to vary the angle at which the frame will hang with respectto the wall, substantially as described.

3. A picture-hanging device comprising a ratchet-toothed windlass, awindlass-supporting bar, provided with means for connecting the same toa picture-frame with freedom for adjustments, a presser-foot or bracket,slidable on said windlass-support, and having a projecting part forengagement with the picture-frame to set the same at different angleswith respect to the picture -frame, and a spring retaining-pawl on saidwindlass-support, cooperating with the ratchet-teeth of said windlass,substantially as described.

4. A picture-hanging device comprising the windlass supporting strap 5,having the hinged section 7 for securing it to the pictureframe, thepresser-foot or bracket 14, slidable on said strap 5, and having theprojection 15 for engagement with the picture-frame to adjust the sameat different angles with respect to the picture-frame, the windlass 9,pivoted to the free end of said strap 5, and provided with ratchet-teeth10, and the spring retaining-pawl 11, secured to said strap 5, andcooperating with the said ratchet-teeth 10, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM P. GURR.

Witnesses:

E. H. KELIHER, F. D. MERCHANT.

